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Subpoenas served to Snyder, MDEQ in class-action lawsuits filed in water crisis
2016-01-26 13:49:34| Waste Management - Topix.net
Subpoenas for records were served to Gov. Rick Snyder, the governor's office and the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality on Jan. 25. The records include emails, text messages or other documents sent or received by Snyder, his staff, or the emergency managers Darnell Early, Michael Brown, Gerald Ambrose or Edward Kurtz relating to the Flint River as a water source from Jan. 1, 2011 to the present. One of the lawsuits was filed in a federal court in November.
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Walmart, beverage-makers announce water donations for Flint
2016-01-26 13:48:27| Beverages - Topix.net
Walmart and several global beverage-makers have pledged to deliver about 175 truckloads of bottled water to Flint as the Michigan city deals with a public health emergency caused by lead-tainted water. The retail giant, along with Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and Nestle, announced Tuesday the collective donation will include up to 6.5 million bottles of water through December for at least 10,000 schoolchildren.
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Failure to test water widespread
2016-01-26 06:34:02| Waste Management - Topix.net
Of the 2,245 Texas public water suppliers that were supposed to test for lead and copper in their systems last year, 1,001 failed to do so, according to officials at the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. The state agency made a small change in the testing protocol.
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Pressure building on global water supply
2016-01-26 00:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: If current trends continue, domestic and industrial water demand would more than double by the year 2050, and continue to increase after that, according to a new study published in the journal Geoscientific Model Development. The study introduces the first scenarios from the IIASA Water Futures and Solutions (WFaS) initiative, a multi-year interdisciplinary research project focusing on global water challenges and solutions, and explains the methodology and models used by the research initiative....
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Tests Show Lead Levels Drop in Flint City Water
2016-01-25 21:27:26| Waste Management - Topix.net
Lead levels in the Flint, Mich., water system have dropped since the city switched back to the Detroit system and added chemical agents, the first wave of testing has shown. The Detroit Free Press reported that the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality tested 853 samples between Sept.
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